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Nobuaki Kobayashi

Nobuaki Kobayashi is a partner of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu’s restructuring and insolvency group in Tokyo. He has a wealth of practical experience handling high-profile insolvency and restructuring proceedings, including large-scale corporate reorganisations, including the corporate reorganisation proceedings of Elpida Memory, as a trustee, and the bankruptcy proceedings of MtGox, a Japanese bitcoin exchange, as a trustee.

Since 2013, he has been chairperson of the Study Committee on the Bankruptcy Law System of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations. He served as a chairperson of the study group on Guidelines applicable to Management Guarantee, established by JCCI (The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry) and JBA (Japanese Bankers Association), and a vice chairperson of Japan Insolvency Lawyers Network, which has a membership of over 5,000. Also, he serves as a board member of Japan Chapter of the East Asian Association of Insolvency & Restructuring. In 2015, he represented Delta Air Lines, as a candidate of sponsor to Skymark Airlines in their civil rehabilitation proceedings.

As with the previous editions, our intention is to help general counsel, government agencies and private practice lawyers understand the conditions prevailing in the global restructuring market in 2017, with a view to the coming year, and to highlight some of the more significant legal and commercial developments and trends that have been evident in recent years, and that are expected to be significant in the future.